Against the Ruins

Fiction & Literature, Historical, Literary
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Author: Linda Lightsey Rice ISBN: 9781475917383
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: June 18, 2012
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Linda Lightsey Rice
ISBN: 9781475917383
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: June 18, 2012
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

On a December day in 1957, schoolteacher Louise Copeland and her six-year-old daughter, Lyra, come home to discover that Louises gentle war-hero husband has suddenly become psychotic and has slashed his wrist with a razor blade.

From that moment on, everything Louise has believed in unravels. In their inner-city Southern neighborhood, situated between a cemetery and a madhouse, a place of leafy oak trees and ghosts, three other people become involved in Louises crisis: Rosa, the scandalous divorcee who entertains men for a living; Uta, the mysterious elderly lady who casts spells; and Max, the clairvoyant gravedigger.

In 2004, as Louise is dying, her daughter returns home, and she and her mother confront how the family was torn asunder in 1957. Louise finally reveals the long-held secret that haunted the family for the next fifty years.

This poignant novel is a gripping drama of madness and prejudice in which a mother leaves her daughter, ultimately, with hope.

Praise for Linda Lightsey Rice

Against the Ruins contains such gorgeous writing that it nearly takes your breath away, with a sense of humor and a fine appreciation of the ridiculous even amid great agony.

Natalie Goldberg

Rice has a fiery, incandescent talent.

Pat Conroy

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On a December day in 1957, schoolteacher Louise Copeland and her six-year-old daughter, Lyra, come home to discover that Louises gentle war-hero husband has suddenly become psychotic and has slashed his wrist with a razor blade.

From that moment on, everything Louise has believed in unravels. In their inner-city Southern neighborhood, situated between a cemetery and a madhouse, a place of leafy oak trees and ghosts, three other people become involved in Louises crisis: Rosa, the scandalous divorcee who entertains men for a living; Uta, the mysterious elderly lady who casts spells; and Max, the clairvoyant gravedigger.

In 2004, as Louise is dying, her daughter returns home, and she and her mother confront how the family was torn asunder in 1957. Louise finally reveals the long-held secret that haunted the family for the next fifty years.

This poignant novel is a gripping drama of madness and prejudice in which a mother leaves her daughter, ultimately, with hope.

Praise for Linda Lightsey Rice

Against the Ruins contains such gorgeous writing that it nearly takes your breath away, with a sense of humor and a fine appreciation of the ridiculous even amid great agony.

Natalie Goldberg

Rice has a fiery, incandescent talent.

Pat Conroy

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